July 13, 2024

Hardware

Apple Says iOS 18 Got Game At Exclusive Gaming Experience Event

Apple held a low-key event in New York City detailing some of the changes coming to iOS 18, which aim to make iPhones better gaming devices. Moreover, Apple took the opportunity to share some details about how the rest of its product lineup will also be seeing gaming related upgrades, according to reports by Macotakara. Game mode, which will be included in both iOS 18 and iPad OS 18, will bring several enhancements for those

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Robotics

Researchers build flexible, soft robotic actuators

Listen to this article [embedded content] Northwestern University engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting — just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator, the researchers used it to create a cylindrical, worm-like soft robot and an artificial bicep. In experiments, the cylindrical soft robot navigated the tight, hairpin curves of a narrow pipe-like environment, and the bicep was able to

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Gone Are Those Days of AI | HackerNoon

This week, I am taking a slight detour from my usual articles that explain AI Concepts or coding tutorials. Yes, it’s a philosophical, nostalgic tour down the road I was fortunate enough to tread all along. One of the rare privileges of starting in a field quite early is that you see the field grow like your baby. When I started my Masters in Computer Vision a decade ago, a CS graduate friend of mine

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Soft Robot Can Amputate and Reattach Its Own Legs

2 min read Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. A squished leg can’t stop this previously four legged soft robot. Faboratory at Yale Among the many things that humans cannot do (without some fairly substantial modification) is shifting our body morphology around on demand. It sounds a little extreme to be talking about things like self-amputation, and it is a little extreme, but it’s also not at all uncommon for other animals to do—lizards

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Hardware

NASA Webb Telescope Captures Breath-Taking Images Of Intertwined Galaxies

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope celebrates its two-year science anniversary with a spectacular image of a pair of interacting galaxies. The eloquent cosmic embrace of the spiral galaxy at the center of the image above, known as the Penguin, and the compact elliptical galaxy to the left, known as the Egg, are comprised of images from Webb’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments. While some may find it surprising that NASA’s Webb telescope has been sending back

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Hardware

LG’s C3 OLED TV Is $1300 Off And More Great Deals For Gaming In The Living Room

If you haven’t shopped for a TV in a long time, you’re in for a treat. Today’s displays offer a ton of bang for your buck, and it’s gotten to the point where even premium panel technologies such as OLED are attainable without taking out a second mortgage. Highlighting this is Best Buy’s deal of the day, which is a $200 discount on LG’s 42-inch C3 OLED TV. You can score the 42-inch LG C3

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Meta researchers distill System 2 thinking into LLMs, improving performance on complex reasoning

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Large language models (LLMs) are very good at answering simple questions but require special prompting techniques to handle complex tasks that need reasoning and planning. Often referred to as “System 2” techniques, these prompting schemes enhance the reasoning capabilities of LLMs by forcing them to generate intermediate steps toward solving a problem. While effective, System 2

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DeepMind’s PEER scales language models with millions of tiny experts

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has become a popular technique for scaling large language models (LLMs) without exploding computational costs. Instead of using the entire model capacity for every input, MoE architectures route the data to small but specialized “expert” modules. MoE enables LLMs to increase their parameter while keeping inference costs low. MoE is used in several popular

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AI

Python + Google Earth Engine

How to clean MapBiomas LULC rasters for any shapefile in Brazil Vinícius Hector · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 21 min read · 2 days ago — Figure 1: Land Use and Land Cover in Porto Acre, AC (1985–2022). Self-made, using MapBiomas LULC Collection 8. If you have ever worked with land use data in Brazil, you have certainly come across MapBiomas². Their remote sensing team developed an algorithm to classify land use

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